We are proud to be working with the following experts.

Professor Gary Smith
Gary Smith is a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bournemouth. He spent a year on the faculty of Yale University before joining Portsmouth where he took charge of one of the largest ICUs in the UK.

He has served as a council member of the UK Intensive Care Society (ICS), and was the Chairman of the ICS Education & Training Committee between 2000 and 2001. He currently serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Resuscitation Council (UK).

Gary is co-author of two textbooks "Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine A-Z" and "Core Cases in Critical Care". He is co-designer of the ALERT® (Acute Life – threatening Events – Recognition and Treatment®) course, which is now running in almost 200 hospitals in the U.K., Ireland and Sweden. His main research is focused on the early recognition and management of acutely ill patients.

Professor Bryony Dean Franklin
Professor Bryony Dean Franklin is Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services and Director of the Academic Pharmacy Unit, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (a joint initiative between the trust and The School of Pharmacy, University of London).

Bryony has been involved with medication error research for more than ten years, and (with colleagues) has published widely on methods for studying errors, and the frequency and causes of prescribing, dispensing and medication administration errors. More recently she has become involved with the evaluation of various technologies designed to reduce errors. Her current post combines research, education and training, and clinical practice.

Dr Dave Prytherch
Dr Dave Prytherch is a Medical Physicist and has been involved in modelling clinical outcomes since 1992. He developed the Portsmouth variant of the POSSUM system for general surgery, P-POSSUM, the vascular surgery variant V-POSSUM and the more data economic BHOM (Biochemistry and Haematology Outcome Modelling) and V-BHOM. He is working with The Learning Clinic to apply BHOH modelling to assist clinicians with the more timely identification of deteriorating and sick patients.

Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics at the University of Portsmouth.

Dr Mohammed A Mohammed
Dr Mohammed A Mohammed is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham. His main areas of interest are health care quality improvement, performance monitoring, league tables and health services research. Dr Mohammed has advocated novel methods for understanding variations in health care, creating considerable interest within the NHS.

Dr Paul Schmidt
Paul Schmidt qualified from Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 1991, and has been practising in the UK for the past 12 years. In 1998 he took up an appointment at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust in Acute Medicine, and was charged with establishing the new Medical Assessment Unit. The unit is now recognised as one of the most innovative centres in acute medicine. In 2001 he was appointed as honorary senior medical lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. His main interests are the measurement of efficiency of acute health care systems, and the use of health information technology to improve clinical processes and patient outcome.